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...government'. The incorporation, however, gravely hurt the Wamponoags' economic status. Prices on land, as well as taxes on Indian-owned property soared to a level far beyond the capacity of the Indians to pay, opening the way for extensive acquisitions by wealthier whites. The Wamponoags now own less than one-fourth of the land their ancestors controlled...
...large number of their wives are housewives, many beginning careers or returning to jobs only after the children are grown. About half of the wives work part-time or as volunteers. Given the goals of most women 25 years ago, even the one-fourth of the women who do work full time is a larger number than their husbands would have expected. Trustman says he "never met one woman here who had any interest in having a career. Harvard was just an esoteric hobby for them. They got jobs if they did not get married right away...
...distilled from hashish ["You take 20 pounds of hash and you get two pounds of hash oil," the dealer said] By the time he left a week later, he had sold an ounce of the drug for $350 and a few grams for $20 each [a gram occupies about one-fourth of a bottle...
...true that 70% of all U.S. veterinarians are in private community practice-about 40% working with food-producing animals and 30% with companion animals-yet one-fourth of all veterinarians are engaged in other health-related matters. Indeed, there are hundreds of diseases, including bovine tuberculosis, salmonellosis, psittacosis, rabies and ringworm, which are directly transmissible from animals to people. Tufts University has been successful in obtaining $10 million in federal funds to build the first veterinary school in New England. Unlike any other professional school in the country, it would enlist the participation of each of the region...
...pretty isolating to be a woman in the History Department," because only one-fourth of the graduate students and two of the professors are women, Susan Ware, another History graduate student, said yesterday...